Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.